Right now, our house feels a bit like a circus act where someone is trying to keep 14 plates spinning at once. My husband is in a job transition. It is not that he lacks connections or promising leads; it is that we do not have a clear known. Is the next step a new…
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The first time you pack a home to start a new one, you realize you’re not just moving furniture, you’re moving a culture. I found that out the year my husband and I wrapped and packed our new dishes next to his large trunk of travel souvenirs and my grandmother’s floral music box. On paper,…
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Love isn’t dead, but it is getting wiser. Pew Research Center’s newly released brief on divorce lands with a hopeful headline for families: compared with the 1980s, Americans are less likely to divorce than they used to be. That’s not wishful thinking or an over simplification, it shows up in a long arc of numbers.…
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Loving Your Spouse Through the Unknown
Right now, our house feels a bit like a circus act where someone is trying to keep 14 plates spinning at once. My husband is in a job transition. It is not that he lacks connections or promising leads; it is that we do not have a clear known. Is the next step a new…
Honoring Where You’re From While Building What Comes Next
The first time you pack a home to start a new one, you realize you’re not just moving furniture, you’re moving a culture. I found that out the year my husband and I wrapped and packed our new dishes next to his large trunk of travel souvenirs and my grandmother’s floral music box. On paper,…
Second Chances, Slower Starts: How We Got to Fewer Divorces
Love isn’t dead, but it is getting wiser. Pew Research Center’s newly released brief on divorce lands with a hopeful headline for families: compared with the 1980s, Americans are less likely to divorce than they used to be. That’s not wishful thinking or an over simplification, it shows up in a long arc of numbers.…